--- title: Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky description: The tea party favorite has opposed the expansion of Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act canonical: https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-04T02:24:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:19:27.767Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky og:description: He's the 2nd Republican governor of the state in 4 decades og:url: https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky twitter:description: He's the 2nd Republican governor of the state in 4 decades twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 4, 2015 2:24 AM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 4, 2015 2:24 AM UTC Voters in Kentucky elected Republican Matt Bevin as governor Tuesday. Bevin beat Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway. Unofficial results from the Kentucky State Board of Elections had Bevin beating Conway 52.11 percent to 44.19 percent with 110 of 120 counties reporting Tuesday night. Conway conceded defeat in an election night speech, saying “tonight was not the result that we had hoped for, but it is a result that we accept.” Conway said he called Bevin and wished him well. Bevin, a tea party favorite, has opposed the expansion of Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act. Conway supports… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-bevin-reportedly-elected-gov-kentucky-n456911?cid=par-time%5F20151104) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/"},"headline":"Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky","datePublished":"2015-11-04T02:24:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:19:27.767Z","description":"The tea party favorite has opposed the expansion of Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act","url":"https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/","keywords":["States"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/states/","name":"States"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4099218/republican-matt-bevin-governor-kentucky/","name":"Republican Matt Bevin Elected Governor of Kentucky"}}]}] ```